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Survival in diabetic and nondiabetic patients Source: Cole et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Coronary Artery Disease Presenting in Young Adults, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2003, The increase in diabetic mortality starts in the first year after angiography and continues over the 15 years of follow- up (p ). After 15 years only 35% of the diabetic patients had survived.

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Fifteen-year survival for patients categorized by ejection fractions (EFs) 30%, 30%–49%, and 50%. Patients with an EF 30% had a dramatic mortality increase during the first year of follow-up, and only 17% were alive at 15 years (p for differences across the three groups of therapy). Source: Cole et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Coronary Artery Disease Presenting in Young Adults, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2003,

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Survival for patients with a prior myocardial infarction (MI) versus no prior MI. A significant increase in mortality is seen starting after the second year for the individuals with a prior MI, and they had 45% mortality at 15 years (p ). Source: Cole et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Coronary Artery Disease Presenting in Young Adults, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2003,

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Freedom from myocardial infarction (MI) based on initial therapy The coronary bypass patients had the highest rates of MI starting around year 8, reflecting the time of expected vein graft loss (p 0.04 for differences in survival across three initial therapy groups). Source: Cole et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Coronary Artery Disease Presenting in Young Adults, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2003,

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Kaplan-Meier curves of myocardial infarction-free survival at six months for the three income groups. The p values are: p 0.01 by the log-rank test for comparison between the high-income and low-income groups; p 0.08 by the log-rank test for comparison between the middle-income and low-income groups; p 0.10 for comparison between the high- income and middle-income groups. Rao et al., Poverty and Outcome in Acute Coronary Syndromes,JACC Vol. 41, No. 11, 2003